Pith Number

pith:MNDO2ZKY

pith:2014:MNDO2ZKYUUAS2JI4G3VIORFCKS

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Distributed Block Coordinate Descent for Minimizing Partially Separable Functions

Jakub Marecek, Martin Takac, Peter Richtarik

arxiv:1406.0238 v2 · 2014-06-02 · math.OC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MNDO2ZKYUUAS2JI4G3VIORFCKS}

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:36:38.819786Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6346ed6558a5012d251c36ea8744a254913cb12b55eb533dd50b77127f9cc29f

Aliases

arxiv: 1406.0238 · arxiv_version: 1406.0238v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1406.0238 · pith_short_12: MNDO2ZKYUUAS · pith_short_16: MNDO2ZKYUUAS2JI4 · pith_short_8: MNDO2ZKY

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MNDO2ZKYUUAS2JI4G3VIORFCKS \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 6346ed6558a5012d251c36ea8744a254913cb12b55eb533dd50b77127f9cc29f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "30dd46568e8a6303f16a266441ae7fa5cee7a2bb2b281a6e1f29df6901238bfd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2014-06-02T03:00:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b8d6039fcf29540ffe84d335774754f832410187bb4e8453ffe2ffdc6037b939"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1406.0238",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}